Whether it is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the architect that designed your house, or the Crayola wall drawings that you did when you were 5 years old, art is all around us. Without art, the world would feel much more monotonous than it is today (The Pixies in the Nickelodeon T.V show Fairly Oddparents comes to mind). An interesting quote that does not have anyone claiming as the author has been floating around in the internet and it said, “Earth without art is just eh”.
What is the general purpose of art? According to an article from Cornell University, the purposes of art is to create beauty, convey emotion, record visual data, propaganda, religious ritual, tell a story, and commemorate an important event. Art can be anything, there’s …show more content…
On April 28, 2003, 2 years after the attack happened, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) conducted an international competition to make the memorial of the 2001 and the 1993 World Trade Center attacks on the former site of the Twin Towers (LMDC Guidelines 20). The winner of the competition was Reflective Absence by Michael Arad and Peter Walker. Although they have won, in the end, the memorial Dual Memory by Brian Strawn and Karla Sierralta is better and has a more meaningful way of interpreting the victims of the September 11 attacks than Reflecting Absence. The different criteria that this paper will use to suggest that Dual Memories is better than Reflective Absence are: to create a unique and powerful setting, to provide space for contemplation. By having these two important criteria, the memorial would live on for generations so that we will never forget about the tragedy that …show more content…
First, this is true because their version of the 911 memorial shows us the pictures of the victims (see fig. 3). When you put pictures on the names of the victims, the impact of this arises from the fact that it feels much more personal when you see what the victims looked like and you can have a general sense of idea of what the victims were like before they died, as they say “A picture is worth a thousand words” whereas in Reflecting Absence, they only have the names inscribed to a stone (see fig. 4). Some people might argue that Reflecting Absence is better than Dual Memory because its design because of its minimalistic style and its representation of the twins tower’s shape and form (see fig. 5). Although having a minimalistic design does have some advantages, it does not provide enough information about the 911 attacks for the people visiting compared to what the Dual Memories vision wanted to portray as stated on the earlier
What is the general purpose of art? According to an article from Cornell University, the purposes of art is to create beauty, convey emotion, record visual data, propaganda, religious ritual, tell a story, and commemorate an important event. Art can be anything, there’s …show more content…
On April 28, 2003, 2 years after the attack happened, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) conducted an international competition to make the memorial of the 2001 and the 1993 World Trade Center attacks on the former site of the Twin Towers (LMDC Guidelines 20). The winner of the competition was Reflective Absence by Michael Arad and Peter Walker. Although they have won, in the end, the memorial Dual Memory by Brian Strawn and Karla Sierralta is better and has a more meaningful way of interpreting the victims of the September 11 attacks than Reflecting Absence. The different criteria that this paper will use to suggest that Dual Memories is better than Reflective Absence are: to create a unique and powerful setting, to provide space for contemplation. By having these two important criteria, the memorial would live on for generations so that we will never forget about the tragedy that …show more content…
First, this is true because their version of the 911 memorial shows us the pictures of the victims (see fig. 3). When you put pictures on the names of the victims, the impact of this arises from the fact that it feels much more personal when you see what the victims looked like and you can have a general sense of idea of what the victims were like before they died, as they say “A picture is worth a thousand words” whereas in Reflecting Absence, they only have the names inscribed to a stone (see fig. 4). Some people might argue that Reflecting Absence is better than Dual Memory because its design because of its minimalistic style and its representation of the twins tower’s shape and form (see fig. 5). Although having a minimalistic design does have some advantages, it does not provide enough information about the 911 attacks for the people visiting compared to what the Dual Memories vision wanted to portray as stated on the earlier